Saturday, April 22, 2017

The Times Tries "Trickeration"

Most of the New England Patriots football team attended the
traditional congratulatory White House ceremony marking their recent victory in
Super Bowl 51, though, predictably, most of the mainstream media attention was
focused on the relative few who didn’t attend due to their supposed opposition
to the policies of Republican president Donald Trump.

The New
York Times (i.e. “The Truth”) merrily tweeted out a pair of photos purporting
to show the difference in attendance between the team’s 2015 visit to Barack
Obama’s White House, and this year’s excursion to Trump’s Pale Casa. The
pictures made it look like many more of the Patriots went to be feted at the
2015 gathering then deigned to attend this year’s honoring.

However,
the Patriot organization itself corrected the Time’s attempted deceipt. The
club stated that the photos “lack context.” The team tweeted, “Facts: In 2015,
over 40 football staff were on the stairs. In 2017, they were seated on the
South Lawn.” The brace of photos both encompassed the same area. Those on the
stairs could be seen, those on the South Lawn were not visible.

So much
for “the truth.” The paper of record’s motto should be, “All the ruse
that fits, we print.”

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays